Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

On my righteousness I have laid hold, And I do not let it go, My heart doth not reproach me while I live.

New American Standard Bible

“I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go.
My heart does not reproach any of my days.

King James Version

My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

Holman Bible

I will cling to my righteousness and never let it go.
My conscience will not accuse me as long as I live!

International Standard Version

I'll retain my righteousness and not compromise it; my conscience won't rebuke me at any time.

A Conservative Version

I hold fast my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I live.

American Standard Version

My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: My heart shall not reproach me'so long as I live.

Amplified


“I hold fast my uprightness and my right standing with God and I will not let them go;
My heart does not reproach me for any of my days.

Bible in Basic English

I will keep it safe, and will not let it go: my heart has nothing to say against any part of my life.

Darby Translation

My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart reproacheth me not one of my days.

Julia Smith Translation

My justice I held fast, and I will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach from my days.

King James 2000

My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

Lexham Expanded Bible

I hold fast to my righteousness, and I will not let it go; my heart will not blame [any] of my days.

Modern King James verseion

I hold fast by my righteousness, and I will not let it go; my heart shall not shame me any of my days.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

My righteous dealing will I keep fast, and not forsake it; for my conscience reproveth me not in all my conversation.

NET Bible

I will maintain my righteousness and never let it go; my conscience will not reproach me for as long as I live.

New Heart English Bible

I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

The Emphasized Bible

On my righteousness, have I taken fast hold, and will not give it up, My heart shall not reproach any of my days.

Webster

My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

World English Bible

I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
fast, and will not let it go
רפה 
Raphah 
Usage: 46

my heart
לבב 
Lebab 
Usage: 251

חרף 
Charaph. 
Usage: 41

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Job Continues His Final Speech

5 Pollution to me -- if I justify you, Till I expire I turn not aside mine integrity from me. 6 On my righteousness I have laid hold, And I do not let it go, My heart doth not reproach me while I live. 7 As the wicked is my enemy, And my withstander as the perverse.

Cross References

Job 2:3

And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, 'Hast thou set thy heart unto My servant Job because there is none like him in the land, a man perfect and upright, fearing God and turning aside from evil? and still he is keeping hold on his integrity, and thou dost move Me against him to swallow him up for nought!'

Acts 24:16

and in this I do exercise myself, to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always.

Psalm 18:20-23

Jehovah doth recompense me According to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands, He doth return to me.

Proverbs 4:13

Lay hold on instruction, do not desist, Keep her, for she is thy life.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have become a fool -- boasting; ye -- ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles -- even if I am nothing.

1 John 3:20-21

because if our heart may condemn -- because greater is God than our heart, and He doth know all things.

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